“I will be ready, job-ready on Day One. I can jump in the budget. I already know what’s going on with the governor’s budget because I worked in the administration for two years already,” Tarantino said.

A pair of political newcomers round out the race with Todd Greenwald, whose background is in construction and Matt Morzy, a stock broker and Marquette grad student.

“When you have someone younger like myself and someone who hasn’t been working in Madison for their career, you have someone who knows how the real world really works,” Morzy said.

“I don’t think it’s always about having the right political connection and being streamlined and ready to go. I think it’s more about sometimes taking a step back, looking at the process, and fully analyzing it,” Greenwald said.